We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

One of our neighbors is a salami distributor, and they pretty well - I mean, we used their salami to make a rocket engine out of. They just look at us and they're amused, they're fine with it.

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

Actually I'm pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.